Definitions
Misconceptions
The Validation Process
Reliability Indicators
100

The most important process in all of educational testing

What is validity?

100

People may argue about this incorrect test label.

What is valid or invalid?

100

The first step in the validation process.

What is identifying and assembling evidence on accuracy?

100

The number of reliability indicators.

What is three?

200

Synonym for consistency

What is reliability?

200

If an assessment is given to evaluate, it must be accompanied by evidence of this.

What is evidence of the test's instructional sensitivity?

200

Step 3 proposes validity argument based on this.

What are Steps 1 and 2?

200

The stability with which a test measures.

What are test-retest reliability coefficients?

300

Terms that describe the nature of assessment validity

What is an inference and an interpretation?

300

People may confuse these test indicators.

What are reliability and validity?

300

High stakes educational tests incorporate this model to support their argument.

What is the Three Step Educational Test's Validity Argument?

300

This type of evidence indicator deals with the reliability of two equivalent forms of an assessment.

What is alternate form reliability?

400

Evidence that a test discriminates between well and poorly taught students.

What is instructional sensitivity?

400

Reliability coefficients are better for this type of test of teacher-made classroom tests.

What are commercially created standardized tests?
400

The step in which the degree to which a test-taker's score correctly contributes to accomplishing the assessment's purpose.

What is step 2?

400

This occurs when a test's items all measure the same thing.

What is internal consistency reliability?
500

The result of this computation is described as a test-retest reliability coefficient.

What is a correlation coefficient?

500

A test creator would not want to see this type of consistency coefficient if their test was intended to measure different skills.

What is a strong, positive internal consistency coefficient?

500

This must be prepared so that those who will use a test may consider its appropriateness of use.

What is a validation argument?

500

This type of reliability evidence is used more frequently than the others.

What is internal consistency reliability?